Send me a message.

Amanda and I talk about Niekie Blom's fabulous chapter from the Debates in D&T book: Design cognition in design and technology classrooms.

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode

Debates in D&T Education, chapter 14.
Niekie Blom

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

This week I'm talking with Russell Hill, award winning D&T teacher from Houlton School, about setting up a new KS3 curriculum.

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode
Houlton School

Twitter: @Mr_Hill_DT

Curriculum Overview - https://www.houltonschool.org.uk/curriculum-2/curriculum-overview/ 

Learning Journey (D&T - https://www.houltonschool.org.uk/assets/Documents/Letters/Learning-Journey-Design-Technology-v3.pdf

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

We've sorted out the data and now we have 18 contentious questions that we think are up for debate.
Listen to me, Amanda and Ciaran talk about the next stage of the Redesigning D&T project and how you can get involved.

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode

Expressions of interest survey

18 contentious questions

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

I'm joined by Georgia McLean and Claire Vickery to debate - does food fit in D&T?

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode
Debates in D&T book

Resources
Georgia has kindly shared some resources about her Trust's D&T curriculum. These are share under the Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Georgia McLean D&T curriculum

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

I'm no expert on primary D&T at all, so I talked to someone who is. Janine Pavlis is a teacher educator at St Mary's University in London and we talk about how primary D&T teachers are training and some current research that Janine is just beginning. She'll be back to talk about this some more soon - I promise!

Episode transcript

You can find Janine and more about her work in these places:

Twitter: @JaninePavlisDT 

Achieving for Children - https://www.achievingforchildren.org.uk/

St Mary's University - https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/home.aspx

PATT40 - https://patt40liverpool.edublogs.org/

Design and Technology Teacher Education blog -

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

Scott Tweeddale shares how he is planning his secondary D&T curriculum at his school.

Episode transcript

You can find Scott on Twitter: @MrScott_T

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

Andy Marston has been teaching for 36 years, 27 in one school. Listen to him reflect on the developments and changes in D&T


Episode transcript

Summary

• Who is Andy Marston and what does he do? 0:01
• Does food fit into the design and technology curriculum? 3:07
• How the Pearson's proposals imply that there will be less opportunity for children to realise their designs. 9:36
• Relations between exam boards and school subjects. 14:59
• What is the essence of design and technology? 18:21
• The importance of understanding where the children are from. 23:41
• The importance of understanding what you’re doing. 32:09
• What’s the point of the GCSE? 35:35

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

This week I'm critiquing some published work to give an insight into how anyone can look at research to hold it to account.
As teachers and school leaders are begin encouraged to be research informed I think we also need to be research literate, this involves being able to evaluate whether a piece of research is 'good'. In this episode I use four criteria to evaluate Pearson's published research to answer the question: is this a good research project?

The criteria used are:

1. What is the research question or aim?
2. What is the methodology and method?
3. Who are the participants?
4. Does the evidence justify the claims?

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode
Pearson unveils vision for future-proofed design education curriculum
The Future of Design Education
The Value of D&T on Zenodo
Redesigning D&T data on Zenodo

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

I'm struggling to find blogs by D&T teachers who are sharing how they plan and teach D&T. In this episode I talk about why I want to read D&T teachers' blogs and why we need to hear about teachers' practice. If you want to start a blog I give some tips for how to get going.

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode

David and Torben for D&T
Researching D&T
D&T Teacher education

My blogposts:

• Should I stay or should I go (from Twitter)?
• Research capacity and engagement in Design & Technology education
• How do we do race in D & T?

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Send me a message.

I have a new book out and I'm offering you a chance to win a copy.  In other words, I'm shamelessly plugging it 😉
In all seriousness, I'm actually recommending it to read. There are 16 chapters written by different authors, so you get to hear lots of views about D&T.

Episode transcript

Mentioned in this episode

Buy the book from Routledge

Enter by 28th February 2023 to win a copy of the new Debates in D&T book by either (or do all 3!):

1. Signing up to my newsletter via my website
2. Leaving me a voice memo on Speakpipe
3. Writing a review on Apple Podcasts (use your real name so I can find you!)

The winner will be announced in March on my podcast, in my newsletter and on social media. 

Support the show

If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'

Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.

If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show.

If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here.

If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!